Brain Electrical Responses to High- and Low-Ranking Buildings

Oppenheim, Ilan; Mühlmann, Heiner; Blechinger, Gerhard; Mothersill, Ian; Hilfiker, Peter; Jokeit, Hennric; Kurthen, Martin; Grünwald, Thomas

doi:10.1177/155005940904000307

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“…Compared with Oppenheim's work [1,3], our stimuli are pictures of natural scenes whereas theirs are hand-drawn pictures. Vessel and Rubin's [28] study found that observer agreement in preferences ratings for real-world images is higher than that for abstract images.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Emotion and novelty processing in an implicit aesthetic experience of architectures

Hu²,

Wang³

2015

NeuroReport

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The present study explored the implicit aesthetic processing of different architectures using an event-related potential method. Event-related potential data were acquired in a categorization task in which participants were asked to distinguish between two different categories of pictures of everyday life objects and the architectures as soon as possible. The architectural pictures included two categories: noted-architect-designed and ordinary architectures. A smaller P2 amplitude and a larger N2 amplitude were elicited by the master architects' works than those of ordinary architectures, which indicated that perceived positive emotion and novelty perception occurred in the aesthetic processing of architectures. Our results present two sensitive neural indicators, P2 and N2, to judge the delight and novelty qualities shown by the architecture, respectively.

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“…For example, Oppenheim et al [3] carried out an event-related potentials (ERP) study, which discovered that high-ranking (classic) buildings elicited a lower N400 amplitude than low-ranking buildings. This finding indicated that neurophysiological correlates of building perception reflect an architectural rule system in the memory.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Emotion and novelty processing in an implicit aesthetic experience of architectures

Hu²,

Wang³

2015

NeuroReport

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“…Most existing neuro-architectural studies are based on stationary protocols with participants focusing on visual stimuli while being seated or lying down to measure the subjective experience of architectural aesthetics. Investigating event-related potentials (ERP) of the EEG, Oppenheim et al (2009 , 2010) found that buildings that rank high regarding their social status as they are designed to be more important (like government buildings) or sublime (like religious buildings) have more impact on the perception of sublimity than low-ranking buildings (such as buildings associated with economy or the private life). In these studies, the hippocampus was shown to contribute to the processing of architectural ranking.…”

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The Embodiment of Architectural Experience: A Methodological Perspective on Neuro-Architecture

Wang

Oliveira

Djebbara

et al. 2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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People spend a large portion of their time inside built environments. Research in neuro-architecture—the neural basis of human perception of and interaction with the surrounding architecture—promises to advance our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying this common human experience and also to inspire evidence-based architectural design principles. This article examines the current state of the field and offers a path for moving closer to fulfilling this promise. The paper is structured in three sections, beginning with an introduction to neuro-architecture, outlining its main objectives and giving an overview of experimental research in the field. Afterward, two methodological limitations attending current brain-imaging architectural research are discussed: the first concerns the limited focus of the research, which is often restricted to the aesthetic dimension of architectural experience; the second concerns practical limitations imposed by the typical experimental tools and methods, which often require participants to remain stationary and prevent naturalistic interaction with architectural surroundings. Next, we propose that the theoretical basis of ecological psychology provides a framework for addressing these limitations and motivates emphasizing the role of embodied exploration in architectural experience, which encompasses but is not limited to aesthetic contemplation. In this section, some basic concepts within ecological psychology and their convergences with architecture are described. Lastly, we introduce Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) as one emerging brain imaging approach with the potential to improve the ecological validity of neuro-architecture research. Accordingly, we suggest that combining theoretical and conceptual resources from ecological psychology with state-of-the-art neuroscience methods (Mobile Brain/Body Imaging) is a promising way to bring neuro-architecture closer to accomplishing its scientific and practical goals.

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“…Frontal lobes with event-related potentials of higher positive amplitude, between 300 and 600 ms, when viewing architectural ornaments [553].Susceptible to cultural modulation [554].…”

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The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

Higuera-Trujillo

Llinares

Macagno

2021

Sensors

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Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental situations, using neuroscientific techniques and virtual reality, provides a promising framework for future design and studies of the built environment. The discipline derived is termed “neuroarchitecture”. Given neuroarchitecture’s transdisciplinary nature, it progresses needs to be reviewed in a contextualised way, together with its precursor approaches. The present article presents a scoping review, which maps out the broad areas on which the new discipline is based. The limitations, controversies, benefits, impact on the professional sectors involved, and potential of neuroarchitecture and its precursors’ approaches are critically addressed.

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Brain Electrical Responses to High- and Low-Ranking Buildings

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Emotion and novelty processing in an implicit aesthetic experience of architectures

Emotion and novelty processing in an implicit aesthetic experience of architectures

The Embodiment of Architectural Experience: A Methodological Perspective on Neuro-Architecture

The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

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